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American Sucker

Author : David Denby
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141957255
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book American Sucker written by David Denby and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-04-07 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 2000 the bottom dropped out of the life of writer David Denby when his wife decided to leave him. Propelled to make some money quickly, and seized by the 'irrational exuberance' of the stock market, then approaching its peak, Denby enthusiastically joined the investment frenzy. Over the next few months he listened raptly to bullish stock analysts, dreamy hi-tech gurus and boastful heads of companies. He plunged into a season of mania and was swept forward on currents of hope, greed and hucksterism - with cataclysmic results. American Sucker is a mesmerising account of those years of madness. What begins as a money chase and an engagement with rampant capitalism soon becomes an encounter with such timeless issues as love, envy, true value - and life and death itself. This is a classic tale of the bubble related not by a market guru or an investment professional but by a witty, perceptive and eloquent outsider.

HowMoneyWorks, Stop Being a Sucker

Author : Tom Mathews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736143810
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book HowMoneyWorks, Stop Being a Sucker written by Tom Mathews and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial illiteracy is the #1 economic crisis in the world, impacting more than 5 billion people across the planet. The few who know how money works take advantage of those who do not - the suckers. This book is designed to help you break the cycle of endless debt, foolish spending and financial cluelessness so you can stop being a sucker, start being a student and take control of your financial future.

American Aquarium Fishes

Author : Robert Jay Goldstein
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890968802
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (688 download)

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Download or read book American Aquarium Fishes written by Robert Jay Goldstein and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aquarium species native to America.

There's a Sucker Born Every Minute

Author : Jeffrey Robinson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110118812X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book There's a Sucker Born Every Minute written by Jeffrey Robinson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One in nine Americans will lose money as a victim of fraud • Every man and woman in the country (and every child with an email address) will be targeted by professional fraudsters-multiple times. • Seven out of every eight frauds go unreported. • Most fraudsters will get away with their crime. • Government agencies and crime watchdogs suggest that there could be up to $100 billion worth of fraud in this country in any given year. A jaw-dropping exposé of fraud in America today-who's doing it, how it's done, and how you can protect yourself-the world of fraud is laid bare: from personal finance and investment schemes to Internet scams and identity theft, to pyramid cons and the infamous Nigerian advance fee frauds. Jeffrey Robinson gets inside the heads of the most notorious scam artists to uncover the psychological weapons they use to entice victims. With uncanny clarity and insight, he shows how to spot a scam and how to limit your exposure to fraudsters. There's a Sucker Born Every Minute levels the playing field, arming consumers with the knowledge they need to combat even the most insidious conmen. Watch a Video

Sucker’s Progress

Author : Herbert Asbury
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178720135X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Sucker’s Progress written by Herbert Asbury and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the great raconteur of the American underworld, and author of The Gangs of New York, comes Sucker’s Progress: An Information History of Gambling in America. From Midwestern Riverboats to East Coast Racetracks, Herbert Asbury explores the legal and illegal history of gambling in pre-WWII America. Describing notorious gambling havens like Chicago and New Orleans, as well as lesser-known outposts in cities like Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Cincinnati, Ohio, Asbury examines the gambling houses, big and small, which peppered the American landscape. Also presented are the lives of some of America’s most famous gamblers, including Mike McDonald, John Morrissey, and Richard Canfield, as well as their infamous counterparts like “Canada Bill” and “Charley Black Eyes,” men who made their names as grifters and con men. Asbury also explores the games these men played, describing the rules and origins of dozens of dice and card games. From $1 lottery tickets to thousand dollar pokes antes, America’s love of gambling thrives today, but it was during Asbury’s era that gambling was established as an American passion. “Asbury embarked on what seems in retrospect an extraordinary mission: to document the entire underworld of America, from New Orleans to San Francisco....His studies of gambling, of the racial politics of the New Orleans French Quarter, and of the history of Chicago crime remain monuments to an ambition that was then confined to the fringes of pop history. Sucker’s Progress, his history of gambling and swindling in America, is dense with facts about a subject one would have thought persisted only as rumour and tall tale.”—A. GOPNIK, The New Yorker One of the best American books of its kind. He tells the story of the New York underworld of the past century, and his narrative is excellently presented in a book adorned with amusing pictures from the weeklies and newspapers.”—E. Pearson, The Sat. Rev. of Books

Ecology of Bonytail and Razorback Sucker and the Role of Off-channel Habitats in Their Recovery

Author : Gordon Mueller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Ecology of Bonytail and Razorback Sucker and the Role of Off-channel Habitats in Their Recovery written by Gordon Mueller and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fraud

Author : Edward J. Balleisen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691183074
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Fraud written by Edward J. Balleisen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of fraud in America, from the early nineteenth century to the subprime mortgage crisis In America, fraud has always been a key feature of business, and the national worship of entrepreneurial freedom complicates the task of distinguishing salesmanship from deceit. In this sweeping narrative, Edward Balleisen traces the history of fraud in America—and the evolving efforts to combat it—from the age of P. T. Barnum through the eras of Charles Ponzi and Bernie Madoff. This unprecedented account describes the slow, piecemeal construction of modern institutions to protect consumers and investors—from the Gilded Age through the New Deal and the Great Society. It concludes with the more recent era of deregulation, which has brought with it a spate of costly frauds, including corporate accounting scandals and the mortgage-marketing debacle. By tracing how Americans have struggled to foster a vibrant economy without encouraging a corrosive level of cheating, Fraud reminds us that American capitalism rests on an uneasy foundation of social trust.

The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English

Author : Tom Dalzell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351765205
Total Pages : 5135 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 5135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang offers the ultimate record of modern, post WW2 American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer examples of usage from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, musical lyrics, and Internet user groups. Etymology, cultural context, country of origin and the date the word was first used are also provided. In terms of content, the cultural transformations since 1945 are astounding. Television, computers, drugs, music, unpopular wars, youth movements, changing racial sensitivities and attitudes towards sex and sexuality are all substantial factors that have shaped culture and language. This new edition includes over 500 new headwords collected with citations from the last five years, a period of immense change in the English language, as well as revised existing entries with new dating and citations. No term is excluded on the grounds that it might be considered offensive as a racial, ethnic, religious, sexual or any kind of slur. This dictionary contains many entries and citations that will, and should, offend. Rich, scholarly and informative, The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English is an indispensable resource for language researchers, lexicographers and translators.

The American Natural History

Author : William Temple Hornaday
Publisher : New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The American Natural History written by William Temple Hornaday and published by New York : Charles Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1904 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hornaday's American Natural History

Author : William Temple Hornaday
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Hornaday's American Natural History written by William Temple Hornaday and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sucker's Progress

Author : Herbert Asbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258797157
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Sucker's Progress written by Herbert Asbury and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Fishes

Author : George Brown Goode
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Fishes written by George Brown Goode and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sucker Punch

Author : Ray Banks
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780151013234
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Sucker Punch written by Ray Banks and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working as an unlicensed private investigator, Cal Innes accompanies an amateur boxer to his first major tournament in Los Angeles, but his simple job soon turns deadly, thanks to rumors of a rigged bout, and the boxer's temper and codeine habit.

Drop Us a Line... Sucker!

Author : James C. Wade
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780786702053
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Drop Us a Line... Sucker! written by James C. Wade and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 1995 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than five years, James Wade, an American businessman living in Switzerland, has been firing off preposterous letters to organizations all over the world, trying to determine whether he can elicit serious replies to bizarre inquiries that are worded to appear as if they may be legitimate. Among the companies he has contacted are Hertz, Listerine, and the Swiss Cheese Union.

American Cloak and Suit Review

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book American Cloak and Suit Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thumbsucker

Author : Walter Kirn
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385497091
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Thumbsucker written by Walter Kirn and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1999-10-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eighties-centric, Ritalin-fueled, pitch-perfect comic novel by a writer to watch brings energy and originality to the classic Midwestern coming-of-age story.Meet Justin Cobb, "the King Kong of oral obsessives" (as his dentist dubs him) and the most appealingly bright and screwed-up fictional adolescent since Holden Caulfield donned his hunter's cap. For years, no remedy--not orthodontia, not the escalating threats of his father, Mike, a washed-out linebacker turned sporting goods entrepreneur, not the noxious cayenne pepper-based Suk-No-Mor--can cure Justin's thumbsucking habit.Then a course of hypnosis seemingly does the trick, but true to the conservation of neurotic energy, the problem doesn't so much disappear as relocate. Sex, substance abuse, speech team, fly-fishing, honest work, even Mormonism--Justin throws himself into each pursuit with a hyperactive energy that even his daily Ritalin dose does little to blunt.Each time, however, he discovers that there is no escaping the unruly imperatives of his self and the confines of his deeply eccentric family. The only "cure" for the adolescent condition is time and distance.Always funny, sometimes hilariously so, occasionally poignant, and even disturbing, deeply wise on the vexed subject of fathers and sons, Walter Kirn's Thumbsucker is an utterly fresh and all-American take on the painful process of growing up.

Sucker

Author : Carson McCullers
Publisher : Creative Education
ISBN 13 : 9780886820534
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Sucker written by Carson McCullers and published by Creative Education. This book was released on 1986 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Pete relates how his twelve-year-old cousin's hero worship turns to hatred.